Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 906

Chapter 899, Legion System

Gu Hang had considered whether opening this legion page actually meant he’d lost out.

After all, with a total of fifty thousand, wouldn’t it be enough to gather twenty-five native Saint Chapters?

In reality, there were already eighteen Saint Chapters before the Alliance, not counting the Saint Bloodline Chapters Gu Hang had established himself, bringing the total to nine.

Including the fifteen in the Mersiphat Star Region, that’s a total of twenty-four, almost reaching the upper limit.

But that wasn’t realistic.

Gu Hang had to conquer the Mersiphat Star Region in one fell swoop, forcing the Saint Chapter to submit, only to allow them to return with fourteen of their own sub-clan members. In reality, these fourteen sub-clan members, by the end of the war, only had a combined strength of four to five thousand Space Marines, an average of around three hundred per chapter. If

the Saints hadn’t taken them in, these fourteen chapters would have preferred annihilation to joining the Alliance.

Without this massive, concentrated attack on the Saints, they wouldn’t have reached their current numbers.

Furthermore, Gu Hang suspected that, since the total number of individual bloodlines could reach 50,000 by opening the Legion page after conquering a founding group, Gu Hang estimated that simply recruiting sub-groups would also have a similar limit. It was just that he had never encountered one before.

Furthermore, Gu Hang discovered something else.

An alliance in the Ardan Universe had recruited a sub-group of Saints called the Holy Cloth Guard. The gene-seed they provided in the system wasn’t Saints’, but rather the name ‘Holy Cloth Guard.’

This wasn’t the first time Gu Hang had encountered this.

The Blood Sharks had Blood Shark seeds, and the Phoenixes had Phoenix seeds; they weren’t ‘bat seeds’ or ‘phoenix seeds.’

They were undoubtedly sub-groups of their respective parent groups. However, Gu Hang suspected that their gene-seeds had mutated over time and due to the unique experiences their chapter had endured, making them somewhat different from the parent group.

While they still looked very similar to the original chapter, they also looked similar during testing.

But something was different, developing new traits, and thus the system recognized it as independent.

Such seeds weren’t subject to the 50,000-point limit on the Legion interface.

Gu Hang even wondered if, once these independent gene-seeds developed into a Chapter, they reached a certain level, could they also be recognized as a Legion?

What would be the criteria for this recognition?

For ordinary Chapters, it came from recruiting founding Chapters.

So, could it be assumed that simply developing a Chapter from an independent seed to the level of a founding Chapter be enough?

And what were the requirements for achieving this level? What was

the number of Space Marines cultivated from an independent seed? The current limit was set at 2,000, so it would have to be slowly expanded through operations to a certain size.

It wasn’t impossible, but it would likely be slow.

Could there be other conditions?

However, this was merely Gu Hang’s conjecture and not guaranteed to come true.

Besides independent seeds, seeds inherited from various Legions were actually divided into three categories:

inferior, Legion, and honorable.

This was also one of the benefits Gu Hang had gained since opening the Legion page.

Of the many Chapters previously subjugated by the Alliance, nearly half, if not more, had their gene-seed classified as inferior.

This inferior seed was likely due to improper storage, the inadequacy of the Space Marines who cultivated it, or simply, simply, the gene-seed had been stored in warehouses for too long… These various issues led to a degree of degradation.

A figure as high as 50% was actually a bit exaggerated.

The Imperium’s management of gene-seed and the training of Space Marines have always emphasized precaution over cultivation. While the Imperials’ strength is crucial and must be cultivated, they are also wary of overstrength, as rebellion would be a serious problem. This overall policy presents a significant flaw.

It’s precisely in this environment that many gene-seeds, stored in inadequate conditions and for extended periods of time, are ultimately used. Poor selection of materials has resulted in the inherited use of inferior seed by Chapters.

Generally speaking, there’s no grading of Space Marine gene-seed within the Imperium. Gene-seed is each Chapter’s most valuable asset, and it’s not subject to casual inspection or quality grading.

However, Gu Hang’s Chapter interface displays this information clearly.

The quality of gene-seed doesn’t directly determine a Space Marine’s skill level. Using good seed can still produce a weakling, while using inferior seed can still produce a champion.

An individual’s skill level is primarily determined by their own talent and dedication.

However, expanding the sample size to tens of thousands of Space Marines, the quality effect of gene-seed becomes significantly more pronounced.

The most direct manifestation is that for Chapters with inferior seeds, the training success rate for company champions is around 2% to 3%.

Legion seeds, which are the most common and plentiful seeds that haven’t degraded, fluctuate between 5% and 10%.

This rate fluctuates more significantly and has a higher ceiling compared to the 5% to 15% for independent seeds, but the baseline is similar.

With the launch of the Legion system, all Saint seeds exchanged for Legion seeds are now Legion seeds, eliminating the use of inferior seeds. After a

Saint Chapter surrenders and the Legion page opens, a new gene-seed exchange option becomes available: the higher-tier Glorious-grade seeds.

The total available is one-tenth of the Saint gene-seed ceiling.

Gu Hang hasn’t personally experienced the effects of this gene-seed, but there are real Chapters he can compare it to—the founding Chapters.

The greatest aura of a founding Chapter is, of course, its high political status, legitimacy, and influence.

Secondly, wealth and superior equipment are its secondary benefits.

Beyond that, the strength of the Space Marines themselves is also not to be underestimated.

The main reason is that for thousands of years, their gene seed inheritance is the best. When the family split up, only the best warriors stayed in the mother group.

Among these founding groups, the proportion of powerful people such as company champions can reach 15% to 25%.

Moreover, the probability of a regiment champion appearing is much higher.

These 5,000 glory seeds are independent of the 50,000 seed quotas. The notes written on the interface clearly state that one-tenth of the legion quota is taken.

In addition, a new Space Marine training method is also marked on the legion interface, called: [Blessed Son].

Gu Hang knows this.

This was the Glory Guard of the Son of God of the Saint Legion in the Legion Era, which is of the same nature as the [Ever-Victorious Army] of the Ultramarines.

Only those trained with glory seeds can be trained to become [Blessed Sons].

And every blessed son has the same strength as a company champion.

More importantly, this training does not conflict with the series of training for veterans, sergeants, sergeants, and company champions, and can be superimposed!

(End of this chapter)